Premiering at the BFI London Film Festival, and soon to stream on Disney+, the doc alternates between the explorer's legendary Antarctic expedition and the 2022 mission to find the wreck of his ship.
A twinkle in his eye, marine archaeologist Mensun Bound is looking back on an adventurous career exploring waters from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea. Sun, Scuba and shining treasure. The Indiana Jones of the deep.
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to trek, coast to coast, across Antarctica. The Anglo-Irish polar explorer was 100 miles from the continent when the Endurance got trapped in the ice. The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition was over before it had begun. “What the ice gets, the ice keeps,” Shackleton would later write.
“You’d think the explorers would have had more pressing things on their minds than making a film,” says Bound, “but all the insanity was captured in startling detail on Frank Hurley’s photographic plates and 35-millimeter film.”“Shackleton was generations ahead of what young people now know to be true,” Dan Snow says in the film. “If you haven’t filmed it, it hasn’t happened.” So, the Endurance set sail with the latest cutting-edge moving film technology.
Bound points to the crew’s dinner plates, an abandoned boot, the word “Endurance” studded in brass letters on the stern. “The preservation is ridiculous,” he says. “You could still lean against the standing rails at the bows and peer through the portholes into the inky black cabin where Shackleton slept.”
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